Re: C file recoginzed as image file

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> The reason I decided to detect images by their contents
> rather than by their file names is that it seems more correct
> as a way of recognizing them.


But the discussion is more about not doing something potentially harmful 
(displaying an image file) in a case when the user would expect it to be 
completely harmless (opening a .c file).